Example sentences of "not [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the way " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unfortunately the Act has not turned out in the way that its progenitors hoped . |
| 2 | You can not expect to be asked the questions exactly as they appear here and you will be badly thrown if you have programmed yourself with exact responses to very particular questions which do not crop up in the way you had anticipated . |
| 3 | But a more novel objection came from Dr Leonard Wilson , when Bishop of Birmingham , and who opened a school without wearing gaiters as a form of protest because he believed : ‘ Bishops should not dress up in the way of the decadent eighteenth century . ’ |
| 4 | Grasshoppers , scorpions , lizards , young birds in their nests , anything that can not get out of the way is attacked . |
| 5 | However it was , the one he had aimed at did not get out of the way in time and a last-minute attempt to slink off in the wind failed . |